Picnickers Beach Quotes & Sayings

Before Diagnosis"

The lake is dead for a second time
this January. And no matter
how many geese lay their warm breasts
against the ice or fly across
its hard chest, it doesn't break,
or sink, or open up and swallow them.
The ice is frozen water.
There is no metaphor for exile.
Even if these trees continue to shake
the crows from their branches,
my sister is still farther away from her mind
than we are from each other
sitting on opposite ends of a park bench
waiting for evening to swallow us whole.
In the last moments of a depressive, a sun.
In the last moments of a sun, my sister
says a man is chasing a goose through the snow. — Roger Reeves

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future. — Brian Roberts

I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week. — Steven Tyler

As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon realized that perhaps that main reason was affliction and suffering. — Timothy Keller

The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface. — Jack Horner

In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved. — Ralph Alfred Habas

To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost. — S. Fitts

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. — Maya Angelou

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me. — Tracey Emin

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. I shop, okay? — Danielle Fishel

I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it. — Kevin Costner

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal? — Arthur Golden

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice- — Michael Palmer